Luis Donaldo Colosio
| Luis Donaldo Colosio | |
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| Secretary of Social Development | |
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In office 8 April 1992 – 28 November 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Patricio Chirinos-Calero |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Rojas-Gutiérrez |
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| Born |
Luis Donaldo Colosio-Murrieta 10 February 1950 Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico |
| Died | 23 March 1994 (aged 44) Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party | PRI |
| Spouse(s) | Diana Laura Riojas |
| Children | 2, Mariana Colosio Riojas and Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas |
| Profession | Politician, economist |
Luis Donaldo Colosio-Murrieta (Spanish pronunciation: [lwis doˈnaldo koˈlosjo]; 10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician, economist, and PRI presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexican presidential campaign of 1994.
He was the son of Luis Colosio Fernández (1923–2010) and Ofelia Murrieta Armida García. Born into a family with a long political heritage in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Colosio-Murrieta was the descendant of 16th century Italian immigrants to New Spain who settled in the rural territories of the northwest, in the modern state of Sonora. Colosio-Murrieta studied at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, better known by its initials ITESM, after which he joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1972. After that, he went on to do postgraduate studies at University of Pennsylvania in the USA and research work at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria before returning to Mexico. In 1979, he joined the Ministry of Budget and Planning under future president Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
He was elected to Congress as the federal deputy for his home town in 1985 and, in 1987, he was selected to serve on the PRI's National Executive Committee. In 1988, Carlos Salinas chose him as the campaign manager for his presidential campaign. In the same election, Colosio was elected to the Senate, representing Sonora.
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